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The one true takeaway from Virginia is actually run for something motherfuckers jesus christ https://twitter.com/reedgshaw/statu...r%3D4495%23pti1
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Democrazy posted:Plus running straight up cowards tend not to be a good way to get good policy done, but maybe he'll move to the left like McAullife the redeeming attribute of cowards is that they can be controlled by scaring them and "a socialist won a blood-red house seat with zero help whatsoever from any dems" is the kind of thing that can be used to put the fear of God into a certain class of centrist ghoul
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C. Everett Koop posted:As much as I'd like to be happy over the Virginia results, and the downticket results are something to be happy about, I'm fairly certain that the Dems are going to view the Northam win as validation of them continuing to hump the dead horse of centrism and will learn not a goddamn thing, leading to a complete assbeating in 2018.
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JeffersonClay posted:It won't just be mine. God willing, it will be.
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Mustached Demon posted:Northams win was the result of dudes and dudettes working their asses off getting people to vote. He was just along for the ride. and he didn't deserve any of that support. in a better world he wouldn't have been on the ticket at all here's another new dem face taking a republican seat, david reid: https://www.reidfordelegate.com/my-priorities he's pretty bland. his jobs plank is really a bunch of pandering to professionals and such, as is the transportation part of his page. nothing too offensive, but nothing really to get excited about either with him
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JeffersonClay posted:Obama ran as a post-partisan consensus candidate and promised to work with republicans, and he won a landslide victory. Twice. Not from the perspective of legislature or governorships. He lost there. Bigly. If all you care about is the Presidency then . . . maybe. But a Presidency absent coattails is useless.
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Mustached Demon posted:Northams win was the result of dudes and dudettes working their asses off getting people to vote. He was just along for the ride. This is true for every election ever held. Some people have asserted that having a mushy moderate on the top of the ticket will preclude the kind of enthusiasm from the democratic base we just saw in Virginia. They appear to be wrong.
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JeffersonClay posted:This is true for every election ever held. Some people have asserted that having a mushy moderate on the top of the ticket will preclude the kind of enthusiasm from the democratic base we just saw in Virginia. They appear to be wrong. Really, I guess it shows just how bad Hillary was to lose considering any other idiot can apparently beat Republicans with ease.
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WampaLord posted:Really, I guess it shows just how bad Hillary was to lose considering any other idiot can apparently beat Republicans with ease. Or maybe... Hillary died for our sins.
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donte tanner is neck and neck with his opponent and 87% of the precincts have reported results for his race, so who knows if he'll be replacing an incumbent. here's his issues page though: https://www.dontetanner.com/issues/ as you can see, it's unusually sparse. he really doesn't have much to say on any of his issues, and what he does say is... underwhelming to say the least. an example is his section on transportation: quote:Transportation and Traffic he's also for "fiscal responsiblity", which to me is codeword for austerity, but who knows
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WampaLord posted:Really, I guess it shows just how bad Hillary was to lose considering any other idiot can apparently beat Republicans with ease. Yes, perhaps Hillary was just a bad candidate who got some bad breaks at the end of the campaign and there are no fundamental problems with the center of the democratic party. I agree. https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/928078275582349312 Dems better not think they'll be able to succeed by campaigning in opposition to Trump. 
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Condiv posted:donte tanner is neck and neck with his opponent and 87% of the precincts have reported results for his race, so who knows if he'll be replacing an incumbent. Rising tide carries all ships, even those that deserve to sink.
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It's fascinating how JeffersonClay can take any arbitrary sequence of events and interpret them as a victory for, and validation of, centrist politics. I could describe the fission of uranium-235 to him and within three sentences he'd bring up James Comey. He's like an early build of AlphaGo except trained on lovely blogs and forum posts, running on someone's broke-dick circa 2012 Bitcoin farm.
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lee carter is next, having replaced the house whip without the support of the democrats: http://www.carterforvirginia.com/issues/ his issues page is not terribly long, but he promises a lot. they include expanding rail capacity to reduce traffic, criminal justice reform (very good), trying to cut down on corporate influence in virginia politics, protecting labor and expanding unions and protecting women's reproductive rights. the issues he stands out on compared to the others are expanding rail and criminal justice reform
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JeffersonClay posted:Yes, perhaps Hillary was just a bad candidate who got some bad breaks at the end of the campaign and there are no fundamental problems with the center of the democratic party. I agree. You are a terrible person who has defended literal slavery and sweatshops. Lord it up tonight you smug rear end in a top hat, it doesn't make you any better of a person.
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Kilroy posted:It's fascinating how JeffersonClay can take any arbitrary sequence of events and interpret them as a victory for, and validation of, centrist politics. I could describe the fission of uranium-235 to him and within three sentences he'd bring up James Comey. He's like an early build of AlphaGo except trained on lovely blogs and forum posts, running on someone's broke-dick circa 2012 Bitcoin farm. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/
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Parsing national politics from a single state-level election is like parsinf college football from Tuesday night MACtion, which is also on TV right now
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Democrazy posted:Parsing national politics from a single state-level election is like parsinf college football from Tuesday night MACtion, which is also on TV right now I will loving fight anyone who slanders MACtion in this or any thread.
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Kilroy posted:It's fascinating how JeffersonClay can take any arbitrary sequence of events and interpret them as a victory for, and validation of, centrist politics. It's fascinating how I can take a moderate democrat winning a contentious election in a swing state and interpret it as a victory for a moderate democrat?
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C. Everett Koop posted:I will loving fight anyone who slanders MACtion in this or any thread. What do you think I'm watching right now? The blowout elections or a sweet shootout in Buffalo?
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there's lots more dems who have picked up seats in virginia, but it's really late so i can't look through their stuff tonight. but in any case, you'll notice that despite some of the dems being worrysome in some aspects, or uninspiring, none of them were terrible like northam has been. there are a huge number of reasons to celebrate tonight based off the dem wins in virginia, and northam should be on the bottom of that list (or not even on that list at all considering what a shithead he's been). so celebrate, but remember that the lesser evil northam is still evil and poo poo, and should be treated as such until he stops being a shitbird and embracing racism and liking gwb and advocating for republican style tough on crime laws.
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Meme Emulator posted:Whats the story behind an incumbent only getting 2.9% of the votes I figured it out on my own. It was a typo, lol
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Condiv posted:there's lots more dems who have picked up seats in virginia, but it's really late so i can't look through their stuff tonight. but in any case, you'll notice that despite some of the dems being worrysome in some aspects, or uninspiring, none of them were terrible like northam has been. there are a huge number of reasons to celebrate tonight based off the dem wins in virginia, and northam should be on the bottom of that list (or not even on that list at all considering what a shithead he's been). so celebrate, but remember that the lesser evil northam is still evil and poo poo, and should be treated as such until he stops being a shitbird and embracing racism and liking gwb and advocating for republican style tough on crime laws.
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Randbrick posted:good god, find a drug and take it
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Lightning Knight posted:https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/statu...%3D4495%23pti32 The Panera strategy starts now.
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Randbrick posted:good god, find a drug and take it sorry, but northam's poo poo, and he's a racist shitbird. it's a shame that he's even a democrat at all and someone else should've been on the ticket for gov there are plenty of reasons to celebrate tonight, but he's really not one
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so does he not realize that a bunch of extremely left people who are buddies with sanders picked up seats in the legislature
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Endorph posted:so does he not realize that a bunch of extremely left people who are buddies with sanders picked up seats in the legislature Karl Marx could've won tonight and Daou would find a way to use it against the party's left.
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JeffersonClay posted:Peter Daou is intensely dumb Peter Daou agrees with you on literally everything, though. Hmmmmm.......
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as opposed to northam, this... https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/928077884278956033 https://twitter.com/kmcdonovgh/status/928083714541793281 quote:Krasner was the outsider candidate, offering voters zero experience as a prosecutor. As a defense attorney, he sued the Philadelphia Police Department dozens of times and represented Occupy and Black Lives Matter activists pro bono. And while his primary opponents were reformers, too, only he had spent decades litigating against the office all were vying to lead. Put simply: “I’ve spent a career becoming completely unelectable,” as Krasner joked at a recent debate. ...is a very good reason to celebrate tonight
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WampaLord posted:Peter Daou agrees with you on literally everything, though. My money is on JeffersonClay just actually being Peter Daou and trying to save his SA parachute account.
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Endorph posted:so does he not realize Lemme stop you there because the list of things Peter loving daou realizes is extremely short
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WampaLord posted:Peter Daou agrees with you on literally everything, though. What he can't know, what he'll never grasp, is that he's actually slightly to the right of Chuck Schumer, and also that he's really, really dumb.
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Democrazy posted:What do you think I'm watching right now? The blowout elections or a sweet shootout in Buffalo? Better man than I am, I've been on Akron/MOH hoping that would have been the better game. To not go completely off-topic, I assume there's another general assembly election in 2019, so the hopes of undoing Virginia's gerrymandering aren't won yet?
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